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Obama: Don't Blame Me For The Democrats Demise
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 1/9/2017 | John Merline

Posted on 01/10/2017 2:42:28 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

At one point in President Obama's interview with ABC News that aired over the weekend, George Stephanopoulos noted that "the Democratic Party got pretty hollowed out on your watch, about 1,000 seats lost in the Congress, Senate, governors, state houses." Then he asked: "Is that on you?"

It was a good question. Since Obama took office, Democrats' fortunes have plummeted. The party lost 900 seats in state legislatures, 12 governorships, 69 House seats and 13 Senate seats.

Clearly, whatever leadership Obama provided, it wasn't helping Democrats connect with voters across the country.

So what was Obama's response?

At first, he tried — and we're not making this up — to blame President Bush.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 01/10/2017 2:42:28 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
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Trump’s fault. Yet ANOTHER win?


2 posted on 01/10/2017 2:44:19 AM PST by Libloather (Hillary - the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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He spent almost the first three years blaming everything on Bush.

the notion that after he continues to do so after 8 years..?

well that just leaves me flabbergasted.

There has never been such a shiftless, jive-talking shirker, not even among black men.


3 posted on 01/10/2017 2:47:08 AM PST by gaijin
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because it was Bush’s fault?


4 posted on 01/10/2017 2:47:11 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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What's interesting is the premise that it's taken for granted that Democrats should always be in power. I know the left would love to have a one-party nation-their party being the one-but thank God we haven't yet come to that (other than the Uniparty members in Congress).
5 posted on 01/10/2017 2:47:35 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Thier boy wonder throws them under the bus


6 posted on 01/10/2017 2:48:41 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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For the Democrats demise... That is the one thing I will thank Obama for...

For everything else he did... no thanks.


7 posted on 01/10/2017 2:48:48 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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How it started,,......

".....and then they chit in my diaper"

8 posted on 01/10/2017 2:51:02 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Good grief, he went there again?!?

"Presidenting is haaaaaaaard..."

History is going to savage this...person.

😂😝🤣😜

9 posted on 01/10/2017 2:51:46 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?!?)
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Stephie should have asked him, “What does it feel like to be the last black president?”


10 posted on 01/10/2017 2:54:05 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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He ain’t gonna ask questions that aren’t pre-approved.


11 posted on 01/10/2017 3:00:17 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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The party lost 900 seats in state legislatures, 12 governorships, 69 House seats and 13 Senate seats.

"Ah Dindoo nuffin". Yep...that was the problem for 8 straight years.

12 posted on 01/10/2017 3:24:15 AM PST by GoldenPup
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Don’t blame me says Obama?

Yes blame you:

As presidet Obama lied to the People:

” If you want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor!”

An outright insidious lie.

And Americans af all political parties did not forget it.

And they voted against the democrat party.

Obama’s legacy is an almost complete destruction of the Democrat party by Obnama and his “in your face” leftists.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 3:29:32 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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Screams “fire” in a crowded theater and blames adults being overweight why some children were trampled to death.


14 posted on 01/10/2017 3:42:03 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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He can make all the excuses he wants, but I think deep down he knows he was the one at fault. He knows his legacy is trash and it is due to him. LOL.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 3:55:21 AM PST by Londo Molari
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If not the Current Occupant, then who?

And if not now, then when?

In their unfounded adulation of a “rock star”, the Democrats willfully blinded themselves to the dangers of “hero worship”.

No man is beyond criticism, no matter what the optics that criticism may bring.

There was only a finite amount of oxygen in the room. And the Current Occupant breathed it all up.

The logical successors were left strangling and lethargic, unable to mount any effort to revive themselves.


16 posted on 01/10/2017 3:59:48 AM PST by alloysteel (If you are going to shoot the king, better not miss. Wounded kings retaliate.)
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17 posted on 01/10/2017 4:00:47 AM PST by eaglestar
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Bush & the Russians.


18 posted on 01/10/2017 4:04:52 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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I guess there was nothing left of the dead Russian horse everyone has been whaling on the past couple of months.


19 posted on 01/10/2017 4:06:49 AM PST by Califreak (All Alinsky All The Time)
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Oh well, the sign on Obama’s desk has always read, “The Buck Stops Somewhere Else”


20 posted on 01/10/2017 4:12:05 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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